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Ahmad Shadeed explains how to vertically align an icon with the first line of text, even when the text wraps.

Simple, modern HTML boilerplate for 2026.

A look at the CSS line height unit and how it works.

Just a bit of fun.

Putting a YouTube video inside a closed details element means it won’t load until that details element is opened.

This looks like a pretty solid CSS reset.

Chris Ferdinandi shares his starting point for building web components.

An article describing how to enable Webmentions on a static site using Zola, webmention.io, and GitHub Actions to support decentralized blog interactions.

David Bushell shares some useful web component patterns.

Jim Nielsen shares some advanced anchor element functionality.

Node.js has made a bunch of improvements recently that I wasn’t aware of.

Format dates and times in JavaScript using toLocaleDateString() and toLocaleTimeString() without relying on external libraries like Moment.js.

Interactive tool for finding named colors usable in CSS.

I really like this web component Chris Ferdinandi came up with for displaying tables on mobile screens.

A collection of Adam Argyle’s nifty CSS and JS snippets

I missed this: it’s now much easier to make images responsive in HTML.

People are upset about LinkedIn training AI on user data, but a model trained on that much cringe sounds hilarious.

I know there are a lot of generative AI haters, but based on my limited experience, OpenAI o1 is substantially better at coding than previous models.

Useful perspective from a former browser engineer who is now working in web development.

I don’t know why, but soft piano rock is really doing it for me right now.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of Google’s descent into uselessness is that we can’t say “Google it” anymore to get out of doin’ stuff.

This article from a few years ago is exactly what it sounds like.

This list showcases possibilities for your personal site, from technical to whimsical ideas.

A clever way to reduce layout shift caused by custom fonts on a website.

A collection of blog posts about personal sites and why they are more fun than the corporate web.

Looks like we’re finally getting a Media Query to test whether a user has JavaScript enabled.

Just upgraded my gaming PC.

CSS that should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine.

I, for one, am disappointed OpenAI didn’t build a new AI CEO.

Nice little article by Andy Bell describing how to build social sharing buttons in a slightly better way.

Some nifty utilities for fluid typography created by Tobias Ahlin Bjerrome.

Jeremy Keith: The default approach should be to assume a multi-page approach (which is the way the web works by default).

Web components don’t need to be complicated.